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The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (鈥渢丑别 Secretary of State鈥�), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following Determination:

Citation

1. This Determination may be cited as the Household Support Fund Grant Determination 2025 No聽31/7670.

Purpose of the grant

2. The purpose of the grant is to provide support to certain local authorities in England for expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them in accordance with the Grant Conditions. This funding is to provide support to households who would otherwise struggle to pay essential utility bills, meet other essential living costs or housing costs (in exceptional cases of genuine emergency), or buy food, and to promote or undertake activity that prevents households facing similar hardship in future.

Determination

3. The Secretary of State determines as set out in Annex A, the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid.

Grant conditions

4. Pursuant to section 31(3) and 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Secretary of State determines that the grant will be paid in respect of the period 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026 and subject to the conditions in Annex B.

Treasury consent

5. Before making this Determination in relation to the upper tier local authorities in England, the Secretary of State obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

James Wolfe

A senior civil servant within the Department for Work and Pensions.

4 March 2025

Annex A

Household Support Fund 2025 Grant FINAL Funding Allocations per County Councils/Unitary Authorities for the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026

County Councils and Unitary Authorities	Total Funding Allocation
Barking and Dagenham	拢3,810,551.61
Barnet	拢4,327,186.97
Barnsley	拢4,144,032.92
Bath and North East Somerset	拢1,704,062.54
Bedford	拢2,117,581.63
Bexley	拢2,718,274.96
Birmingham	拢22,543,995.72
Blackburn with Darwen	拢2,852,605.05
Blackpool	拢3,077,022.06
Bolton	拢4,900,225.40
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council	拢4,676,480.62
Bracknell Forest	拢978,995.91
Bradford	拢10,036,365.73
Brent	拢4,901,821.69
Brighton and Hove	拢3,772,322.52
Bristol, City of	拢7,120,318.56
Bromley	拢3,292,087.58
Buckinghamshire	拢4,228,502.10
Bury	拢2,703,982.04
Calderdale	拢3,230,614.18
Cambridgeshire	拢6,312,154.45
Camden	拢3,537,157.88
Central Bedfordshire	拢2,613,873.57
Cheshire East	拢3,884,294.39
Cheshire West and Chester	拢4,036,140.64
City of London	拢111,177.12
Cornwall	拢7,981,469.93
Coventry	拢5,682,596.08
Croydon	拢5,311,538.25
Cumberland	拢3,820,047.17
Darlington	拢1,610,640.10
Derby	拢3,920,987.80
Derbyshire	拢9,524,532.13
Devon	拢8,926,693.77
Doncaster	拢5,268,505.04
Dorset	拢4,044,766.17
Dudley	拢4,627,399.41
Durham	拢8,241,486.80
Ealing	拢4,686,064.82
East Riding of Yorkshire	拢3,633,918.75
East Sussex	拢6,867,965.88
Enfield	拢5,019,505.98
Essex	拢16,631,626.56
Gateshead	拢3,237,005.76
Gloucestershire	拢6,507,891.90
Greenwich	拢4,192,375.64
Hackney	拢4,974,146.95
Halton	拢2,287,475.71
Hammersmith and Fulham	拢2,492,793.89
Hampshire	拢12,556,062.75
Haringey	拢4,241,687.45
Harrow	拢2,602,652.56
Hartlepool	拢1,750,170.48
Havering	拢2,904,817.17
Herefordshire	拢2,343,383.67
Hertfordshire	拢10,878,081.02
Hillingdon	拢3,647,153.95
Hounslow	拢3,599,662.61
Isle of Wight	拢1,994,369.25
Isles of Scilly	拢19,616.46
Islington	拢3,909,440.47
Kensington and Chelsea	拢2,080,365.52
Kent	拢19,502,405.12
Kingston upon Hull, City of	拢5,354,902.41
Kingston upon Thames	拢1,520,777.72
Kirklees	拢6,526,116.07
Knowsley	拢3,282,052.24
Lambeth	拢4,795,041.96
Lancashire	拢17,057,602.21
Leeds	拢12,511,156.61
Leicester	拢6,044,133.12
Leicestershire	拢6,380,211.07
Lewisham	拢4,703,218.32
Lincolnshire	拢9,631,345.40
Liverpool	拢10,670,030.84
Luton	拢3,224,041.19
Manchester	拢11,373,508.54
Medway	拢3,987,524.06
Merton	拢2,091,360.07
Middlesbrough	拢2,914,447.24
Milton Keynes	拢3,159,257.14
Newcastle upon Tyne	拢5,108,350.73
Newham	拢5,885,231.61
Norfolk	拢11,802,922.14
North East Lincolnshire	拢2,748,862.64
North Lincolnshire	拢2,333,321.69
North Northamptonshire	拢4,345,356.05
North Somerset	拢2,305,042.89
North Tyneside	拢2,837,573.76
North Yorkshire	拢6,234,826.70
Northumberland	拢4,371,507.98
Nottingham	拢6,268,990.26
Nottinghamshire	拢9,951,700.52
Oldham	拢4,264,066.44
Oxfordshire	拢5,924,114.14
Peterborough	拢3,215,867.26
Plymouth	拢4,044,511.26
Portsmouth	拢3,327,922.34
Reading	拢1,992,735.18
Redbridge	拢3,464,979.96
Redcar and Cleveland	拢2,284,833.32
Richmond upon Thames	拢1,474,053.78
Rochdale	拢4,119,569.63
Rotherham	拢4,386,841.25
Rutland	拢277,361.84
Salford	拢4,818,416.00
Sandwell	拢6,118,313.95
Sefton	拢4,291,811.27
Sheffield	拢9,171,588.04
Shropshire	拢3,681,439.41
Slough	拢2,075,646.35
Solihull	拢2,482,191.04
Somerset	拢6,733,369.00
South Gloucestershire	拢2,485,111.88
South Tyneside	拢2,617,011.10
Southampton	拢3,917,400.85
Southend-on-Sea	拢2,490,509.48
Southwark	拢4,819,238.93
St. Helens	拢3,136,458.48
Staffordshire	拢9,705,127.34
Stockport	拢3,812,451.89
Stockton-on-Tees	拢2,971,302.82
Stoke-on-Trent	拢4,735,267.57
Suffolk	拢8,999,226.30
Sunderland	拢4,712,073.49
Surrey	拢9,324,930.29
Sutton	拢2,037,043.78
Swindon	拢2,670,751.62
Tameside	拢3,920,943.60
Telford and Wrekin	拢2,669,344.19
Thurrock	拢2,282,470.97
Torbay	拢2,177,279.70
Tower Hamlets	拢5,280,853.49
Trafford	拢2,569,812.98
Wakefield	拢5,507,590.88
Walsall	拢4,969,831.74
Waltham Forest	拢4,102,198.28
Wandsworth	拢3,647,406.10
Warrington	拢2,539,279.84
Warwickshire	拢6,121,054.12
West Berkshire	拢1,224,651.84
West Northamptonshire	拢4,581,768.45
West Sussex	拢8,583,868.61
Westminster	拢3,439,473.35
Westmorland and Furness	拢2,683,881.90
Wigan	拢4,967,054.28
Wiltshire	拢4,809,175.90
Windsor and Maidenhead	拢1,036,165.47
Wirral	拢5,374,380.18
Wokingham	拢926,307.42
Wolverhampton	拢4,638,605.51
Worcestershire	拢6,960,240.56
York	拢1,829,279.34
Total	拢741,999,999.97

Annex B

Grant Conditions

1.聽 In this Annex:

鈥渢丑别 Scheme鈥� means the use by the Authority of as much of the grant money identified in Annex A as it deems necessary to provide support to households who would otherwise struggle to pay essential utility bills, meet other essential living costs or housing costs (in exceptional circumstances of genuine emergency), or buy food, and to promote or undertake activity that prevents households facing similar hardship in future;

鈥渢丑别 Department鈥� means the Department for Work and Pensions;

鈥渢丑别 Authority鈥� means any local authority listed in Annex A;

鈥渢丑别 Secretary of State鈥� means the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;

鈥渢丑别 Grant Period鈥� means the period of time set out in paragraph 4 of this Grant Determination;

鈥渢丑别 鈥� means the HM Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Branding Manual Funded by UK Government first published by the Cabinet Office in November 2022, including any subsequent updates from time to time.

2. The grant is paid to the Authority to support eligible expenditure only (see paragraphs 4 to 7 below); and on the basis overall that the provision of grant funding remains subject to the Secretary of State鈥檚 ongoing satisfaction that all grant usage by the Authority complies fully with the relevant conditions.

3. The Authority must have regard to any guidance issued by the Department or sources of information and data available to it that may assist in the decision-making regarding the Scheme.聽

Eligible expenditure

4. Eligible expenditure means payments made, or committed to, by the Authority or any person acting lawfully on behalf of the Authority, during the Grant Period, under the Scheme.

5. 聽Unless the Secretary of State decides otherwise (for all Authorities or any one Authority), the Authority must determine eligibility in its area for assistance under the Scheme and the means by which assistance will be provided (whether directly by the Authority or through a third party) and use the grant monies as follows:

a. the Authority is to ensure that the grant is primarily allocated to support with the costs of energy (for heating, lighting and cooking), food, water (for household purposes, including sewerage) and other essential living needs in accordance with the Scheme guidance

b. by exception and where existing housing support has been exhausted, the Authority may allocate grant funds to pay housing costs incurred by occupiers or prospective occupiers, as set out in the Scheme guidance

c. the Authority, during the Grant Period, is to facilitate applications for assistance under the Scheme from individuals who are eligible for assistance in its area

d. the Authority may, in accordance with the Scheme guidance, allocate a portion of the grant to provide support that will improve, beyond the Grant Period, the financial resilience of households, including those households who are not struggling to meet their immediate essential living costs, and prevent vulnerable households from falling into, or further falling into, crisis. Such activities may include the provision of advice to individuals in meeting their essential living needs. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not include using the Fund to deliver and maintain activity for which the Authority is already receiving funding from HM Government

Nothing in this paragraph 5(d) shall preclude the Authority from supplementing or expanding through the Fund existing provision delivered by the Authority.

6. If the Authority or any third party incurs any of the following costs, they must be excluded from eligible expenditure:

a. contributions in kind,

b. payments for activities of a political or exclusively religious nature

c. depreciation, amortisation or impairment of fixed assets

d) input VAT reclaimable from HM Revenue & Customs

e. interest payments or service charge payments for finance leases

f. gifts, other than promotional items with a value of no more than 拢10 in a year to any one person

g. entertaining (entertaining for this purpose means anything that would be a taxable benefit to the person being entertained, according to current UK tax regulations), or

h. statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties

i. payments under the Scheme procured by fraud or otherwise paid as a result of financial irregularity as defined by paragraph聽15

and, for the avoidance of doubt, the exclusions at a) and f) above do not apply to the provision of direct assistance, including food, to the intended eligible beneficiaries of the Scheme.

7. The Authority must not deliberately incur liabilities for eligible expenditure before there is an operational need for it to do so.

Payment arrangements

8. The grant will be paid in arrears following receipt by the Department of the Statement of Grant Usage described in paragraph 10.

9. If at any time the Authority becomes aware that the payment in arrears will affect the delivery of the Scheme, the Authority must inform the Department as soon as possible. The Secretary of State reserves the right to alter the timing or amount of grant payments accordingly.

Statement of Grant Usage

10. The Authority must prepare a Statement of Grant Usage to be submitted to the Department at a time and in a form directed by the Secretary of State. The Statement of Grant Usage must provide details of eligible expenditure in the Grant Period. The Statement of Grant Usage must be certified by the Authority鈥檚 Section 151 officer that, to the best of the officer鈥檚 knowledge, the amounts shown on the Statement are all eligible expenditure and that the grant has been used for the purposes intended.

11. If the Statement of Grant Usage identifies any overpayment of grant, the Authority must, unless offset by the Department in accordance with paragraph 20, repay this amount within 30 days of being asked by the Secretary of State.

12. The Secretary of State may at any time require a validation or audit to be carried out by officers of the Department or an appropriately qualified independent accountant or auditor, on the use of the grant.

Progress Report and Management Information Return

13. The Authority must provide a Progress Report and Management Information Return with the Statement of Grant Usage in a form directed, and subject to any guidance issued, by the Secretary of State.聽

Financial management

14. The Authority must maintain a sound system of internal governance and financial controls in relation to the grant.

15. If the Authority has any grounds for suspecting financial irregularity in the use of any grant paid under this Determination, it must notify the Department immediately, explain what steps are being taken to investigate the suspicion and keep the Department informed about the progress of the investigation. For these purposes 鈥渇inancial irregularity鈥� includes fraud or other impropriety, mismanagement, and the use of grant monies for purposes other than those for which they were provided.

Records to be kept

16. The Authority must maintain reliable, accessible and up to date accounting records with an adequate audit trail for all expenditure funded by grant monies under this Determination.

17. The Authority and any person acting on behalf of the Authority must allow:

a. the Comptroller and Auditor General or appointed representatives, or

b. the Secretary of State or appointed representatives

free access at all reasonable times to all documents (including computerised documents and data) and other information as are connected to the grant, or to the purposes for which grant monies were used, subject to the provisions in paragraph聽18.

18. The documents, data and information referred to in paragraph 17 include such which the Secretary of State or the Comptroller and Auditor General may reasonably require for the purposes of 鈥榮pot checking鈥� administrative costs or significant amounts paid under the Scheme or a financial audit of any department or other public body or for carrying out examinations into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which any department or other public body has used its resources. The Authority must provide such further explanations as are reasonably required for these purposes.

19. Paragraphs 17 and 18 do not constitute a requirement for the examination, certification or inspection of the accounts of the Authority by the Comptroller and Auditor General under section 6(3) of the National Audit Act 1983. The Secretary of State and Comptroller and Auditor General will seek access in a measured manner to minimise any burden on the Authority and will avoid duplication of effort by seeking and sharing information with local auditors.

Breach of Conditions and Recovery of Grant

20. If the Authority fails to comply with any of these conditions, or if any overpayment or underpayment is made in relation to this grant or any amount is paid in error, or if any of the events set out in paragraph 21 occurs, the Secretary of State may reduce, suspend or withhold grant payments or require the repayment of the whole or any part of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the Secretary of State and notified in writing to the Authority. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Secretary of State who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the Authority from central government.

21. The events referred to in paragraph 20 are:

a. the Authority purports to transfer or assign any rights, interests or obligations arising under this Determination without the prior agreement of the Secretary of State

b. any information provided in any application for grant monies payable under this Determination, or in any subsequent supporting correspondence, is found to be significantly incorrect or incomplete in the opinion of the Secretary of State

c. it appears to the Secretary of State that other circumstances have arisen or events have occurred that are likely to significantly affect the Authority鈥檚 ability to deliver the Scheme

d. the Authority鈥檚 Section 151 officer is unable to provide reasonable assurance that the Statement of Grant Usage, in all material respects, fairly presents the eligible expenditure in the Grant Period in accordance with the definitions and conditions in this Determination, or

e. the Authority fails to provide the Statement of Grant Usage and a Progress Report and Management Information Return in accordance with the Grant Conditions

Communications

22. The Authority shall at all times during and following the end of the Grant Period:

a. comply with requirements of the Branding Manual in relation to activity under the Scheme; and

b. cease use of the Funded by UK Government logo on demand if directed to do so by the Department

23. The Authority must publish on their website, and by any other appropriate means, such information as it considers sufficient to enable the general public to understand the Scheme (including the Authority鈥檚 eligibility criteria and how the Scheme can be accessed) in accordance with the Scheme guidance.